Political Partisans and Education

Space_Time · Oct 24, 2020

The current political situation has spilled over into classrooms. Partisans are trying influence educational policy. Here are two examples for the opposite sides of the political spectrum:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/she-taught-fourth-graders-black-083013278.html

Residents of Wisconsin town near Kenosha in uproar over teacher's racism lesson

Tyler Kingkade

Sat, October 24, 2020, 1:30 AM PDT

Residents of Wisconsin town near Kenosha in uproar over teacher's racism lesson

In late August, during the second week of school in Burlington, Wisconsin, Melissa Statz heard children in her fourth grade class talking about Kenosha.

A couple of students had seen burned and boarded-up buildings in the nearby city, but they didn’t know the details of the protests that filled the streets after a police officer shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, in the back on Aug. 23. One student asked Statz, 30, if she knew what was going on in Kenosha, which is a half-hour drive from Burlington, a town of 11,000 that is 89 percent white.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5f889a29c5b6e9e76fbb6db8/amp

Videos From Right-Wing Site That Preaches 'The Left Ruins Everything' Assigned In Ohio School

PragerU videos were recently assigned in an Ohio classroom. Turns out, the right-wing site is looking to further its influence in K-12 settings.

By Rebecca Klein

10/19/2020 04:34 PM ET

Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk are some of the personalities who host PragerU videos. (Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty)

An Ohio public school has been giving students extra credit for watching videos from PragerU, a right-wing website that produces clips of talking heads such as Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro discussing conservative viewpoints, HuffPost has learned.

The PragerU videos — with titles such as “Build the Wall,” “Why the Right Was Right” and “The Left Ruins Everything” — were assigned to a 10th-grade history class at Maumee High School, along with a series of questions about the videos’ “most important messages.”

The assignment came at the same time that the website has tried to gain further influence in K-12 classrooms. Earlier this month, the organization launched a program directly aimed at parents and educators, complete with study guides with sections such as “Conservatives Are the Real Environmentalists” and “The Ferguson Lie,” based on a HuffPost review of the materials.
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